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The modern Cube House design project consists of a two level house with views towards the Pacific Ocean. Is located in a smooth slope hillside. The project was developed based on the ratio of a prism and a cube resulted to examine how the terrain and the main sights. The most important social spaces are inside the cube that opens into the most privileged views, while the prism, with features tight, closed to accommodate private uses. Both volumes are joined through an intervening space opened to the sky, where is the staircase and common living. In this space of light is protagonist and will identifying the perception of space as they pass the hours, from yellow to orange at sunrise and sunset. The metal frame supports a tempered glass and shadows orthogonal frames are generated on the white walls causing sensations to go from level to level are increasing private Read the rest of this entry »

The rainscreen solution optimizes a passive thermal response to shade the house in summer and insulate it in winter, allowing partially generated hot air gap between the interior and exterior.In the second level, a corridor and a vacuum / thermal chimney, allow cross ventilation to all rooms as well as leading the hot air up and out of the living spaces during the summer. The collection of water in the ground has been considered to fill the pool and the garden irrigation use an available storage of 11,000 gallons of water. A gray water system also allows to water the garden as part of sustainable solutions.

The construction techniques for enlargement involves a system of fiber cement siding cost effective waterproof wooden slatted rain screens. The overhang is achieved through the construction of two large roof trusses that are embedded in the walls.The existing house includes a master bedroom suite and another smaller. Read the rest of this entry »

When designing this building (Central Otago, New Zealand), the designer and owner of the house, the engineer Guy Shallard, he was a need to put the room in an elevated bridge, based on narrow and elongated in the plot , and the ‘harassment’ of the neighboring buildings. Told and done, here is a house with the main (living room and dining room) on a bridge on the first floor, you can enjoy views of the lake and gain privacy. Read the rest of this entry »

The Clingstone House is a dream house that stands of 103 years on a small island in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, with a wonderful ocean view.
This is a historical gem, built by St. Lovering Wharton and by the artist William Trost Richards, and completely made of natural wood. Most of interesting the fact that now owned to the architect Henry Wood and his family, whose members can enjoy the 23 rooms and three floors of timeless atmosphere. Read the rest of this entry »

The architecture Dionysus LAB studio has completed the construction of a house in Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, by giving a very special appearance. The main facade of house 77, as it is called of the house, is in fact made of perforated aluminum panels, where the “holes” are made of stylized pictures of “sense”. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a typically Victorian town house between party walls, with its forecourt ventilating the basement and a backyard fairly unused, but with a good renovation project has become a contemporary housing filled with light, which is only extended one meter on its rear elevation.

Has not changed the layout of the rooms, since the kitchen and dining room are still in the basement, and the lounge on the ground entrance to the house but the kitchen and does not have 2 meters in height, or the dining room it is a mousetrap. With a new floors made, now the basement level is a lower altitude and the ground floor a little bit higher, setting the dining room in a double high space. Read the rest of this entry »